Books like Animal Farm, 1984, The Grapes of Wrath, Lord of the Flies, and that’s it so far. So I guess mostly books that have symbolism and make you think instead of just normal fantasy like Harry Potter. Any recommendations for other books like the 4 I have tried?
Animal Farm was also my favorite by far lol it’s funny also because I remember hating it in high school.
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I think “Brave New World” by Aldous Huxley would be right up your alley.
Some other suggestions: The Great Gatsby by Fitzgerald, The Sun Also Rises by Hemingway, Beloved by Morrison all seem in your 20th century wheelhouse.
To go back further I’d say Tale of Two Cities by Dickens, Crime and Punishment by Doestoyevsky, Wuthering Heights by Bronte, and The Count of Monte Cristo by Dumas.
In keeping with the “high school symbolism reads” I’d suggest:
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
**Fahrenheit 451** by Ray Bradbury
**To Kill a Mockingbird** by Harper Lee
**One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest** by Ken Kesey
The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell
The Children of Men by P.D. James
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Blindness by Jose Saramago
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K Dick
A Scanner Darkly by Philip K Dick
{{Stoner by John Williams}}
{{The Road by Cormac McCarthy}}
{{The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner}}
{{Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie}}
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Starship Troopers and Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein
Also, although not in most high schools, I’d recommend Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series. It’s fantasy but actually satirical and pointed like many of the classics